http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/05/11/mike-huckabees-2016-hopes-face-a-roadblock-his/203593
Huckabee's Former Colleagues: "Appalling," "Spoiler," "Big Government, Big Taxes," "Lying Crapweasel," "His Time Has Passed"
Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is facing vast skepticism from some of the people who know him best: his former colleagues in the conservative media.
Huckabee hosted a weekly Fox News program for over six years before leaving to explore a presidential run. Huckabee credited his Fox News platform for helping him gain access to "people's homes every week."
That advantage with Republican primary voters hasn't necessarily translated to many of his former colleagues. Conservative media figures have called Huckabee's positions "appalling," and said he represents "big government, big taxes, and pro-amnesty." They've also questioned whether he's serious about running, or is just being a "spoiler" on behalf of the Republican establishment.
Media Matters documented how Huckabee's years in the media were filled with numerous lowlights, including staunch anti-LGBT rhetoric, claiming President Obama grew up "in Kenya," linking the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting to the lack of God in schools, and renting out his email list to shady companies.
Glenn Beck: Huckabee Is "Being Put In As A Spoiler" By The Establishment. Beck claimed that the Republican establishment is putting Huckabee in the race in order to take away votes from conservatives like Ted Cruz and Rand Paul. His website reported:
there is a plethora of complainers about the huckster Elmer Gantry wannabe. we've been seeing the weeding out process unfold before primary campaigning really gets going again with so many aspirants it just shows the dissent among their own each one has a different plan but the same, hate everybody and everything keep the Hispanics out and start another war and keep rich rich and wages low and progressives away from the voting booth. checkout the put downs of the republican of the cloth which cloth not sure.
